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#1 When Malaika’s mother, Dipuo, was ten years old, she began reading books that her neighbor, a maid, brought home from her job. She loved reading about romance, and her favorite book was A Perfect Stranger.
#2 The community that Dipuo grew up in was known for its proverbs and metaphors. When Dipuo’s mother, Matshediso, was born, she would have been called a ngoana, or a little being not too different from an animal. Only when she began to talk would she become a mothoana, or a person.
#3 In Johannesburg, black women were employed as maids in white families’ literal kitchens. The few times Dipuo’s mother went to work in a white woman’s kitchen, she was given leftovers while the madam gave her dogs kibble.
#4 As a child, Dipuo always wanted more than what she had. She would make you feel bad if you wanted Christmas clothes or school shoes, her friend recalled. She would always shout, Where do you expect I can get that money. I earn so little.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	15 août 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798350063004
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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When Malaika’s mother, Dipuo, was ten years old, she began reading books that her neighbor, a maid, brought home from her job. She loved reading about romance, and her favorite book was A Perfect Stranger.

#2

The community that Dipuo grew up in was known for its proverbs and metaphors. When Dipuo’s mother, Matshediso, was born, she would have been called a ngoana, or a little being not too different from an animal. Only when she began to talk would she become a mothoana, or a person.

#3

In Johannesburg, black women were employed as maids in white families’ literal kitchens. The few times Dipuo’s mother went to work in a white woman’s kitchen, she was given leftovers while the madam gave her dogs kibble.

#4

As a child, Dipuo always wanted more than what she had. She would make you feel bad if you wanted Christmas clothes or school shoes, her friend recalled. She would always shout, Where do you expect I can get that money. I earn so little.

#5

Black people needed to overcome their inferiority complex. They needed to stop caring what white people thought of them.

#6

The author’s mother took her shopping downtown once a year. She would gaze at the rows of black- patent-leather Mary Janes, their toes polished so bright that she could see her reflection.

#7

As a child, Christo’s favorite pastime was exploring the farm his family owned. He loved hearing the sounds of nature and imagining he was alone in an uninhabited wilderness.

#8

The donga is an erosion gully that running water carves in South Africa’s dusty soil. The word comes from the isiZulu udonga. White people have been in South Africa for four hundred years, but they rarely borrowed words from the country’s black languages.

#9

Piet’s forefathers had a defiant attitude, and this was vital to their success. The Dutch East India Company, which established the first colony at Cape Town in the 1600s, had the reach of the entire corporate power of the twenty-first century United States.

#10

The Dutch doctor Gerard van Depner published pamphlets describing the miracles in Europe’s overseas colonies. The colonies were said to be places men could start again, unburdened by the legacies of their ancestors’ mistakes.

#11

During this period, Europe was experiencing many problems, such as war, disease, economic bubbles, and bad leaders. Many Europeans believed that the new world was somewhere else, and that they could attain staggering wealth and immortality by going there.

#12

The first Europeans to settle in the Cape were not those with the biggest ambitions. They were people European society rejected. The Cape was where the VOC charges could make a stand: as people who might be nobler and more virtuous than their titled brethren.

#13

The Kalahari Desert, where Trudie’s ancestors eventually settled, was shrouded in the most terrifying legends. The first Europeans who traveled there sent back reports of salt pans so vast and featureless you’d lose your orientation and mistake up for down, east for west.

#14

Trudie’s love of Elvis Presley was banned in her country, as the government was strict about their moralistic artistic censorship. She fell in love with a boy named Johannes, who eventually proposed marriage to her.

#15

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many European missionaries and even some Afrikaner leaders said they respected the black people they met. But many Afrikaners still viewed themselves as better than black people, and the first commercial farmers in South Africa were black.

#16

The Afrikaner leaders tried to reverse the decline of their language and culture, and in 1938 they held a show that kickstarted a political reawakening among the Afrikaners.

#17

In 1976, South Africa allowed television into the country, and black South Africans were able to see the white lifestyles that their leaders claimed they wanted for black people. But when they realized that white people were only after their money, the white lifestyle began to seem cruel.

#18

Dipuo’s mother, fearing for her safety, withdrew into the shack with her obsession with God.

#19

Dipuo’s mother struggled to explain to her the difference between God and Nelson Mandela, and how God allowed apartheid to exist. She only explained that God helped black people only so far, and that it was up to them to help themselves.

#20

When Trudie got pregnant again, her doctor warned her that the pregnancy was risky, and prescribed bed rest. For months, Elsie took over the operations of the house. When Christo was a toddler, Elsie put him to sleep.

#21

Some white South Africans, however, grew up under apartheid and felt they had a charmed childhood. They would go out and explore their neighborhoods, bringing home fireflies and lizards.

#22

When Christo was five, he saw white refugees pass through his village. He developed a desire to become a soldier after that, specifically a reconnaissance officer, because he loved the idea of going behind enemy lines to protect his country.

#23

As apartheid was traveling against history, other African countries were shuffling off their colonial yokes. In 1951, the Gold Coast—now Ghana—elected a black man its prime minister. In 1965, the apartheid government declared a whites-only zone in Cape Town.

#24

Because of the rumors, Christo began to believe that the fields weren’t as peaceful as they seemed. He began playing a game with his father’s workers' sons, dividing them into the army and the terrorists.

#25

Christo’s love of war movies and TV shows blossomed in 1986, when he was drafted into the South African military. He loved the idea of becoming a hero, and he was excited to be in the Special Forces.

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